Can I Smoke in Here? - Ry Cooder

Can I smoke in here can I sit down

Am I bothering you are you alone

Is my tie on straight do you rate me polite

Do I need a shave do I seem all right

Names don’t matter mine’s Kash Buk no it’s true

Go ahead laugh it’s good for you

What’s that you’re drinking I like your smile you know

Hey mister bartender please don’t be so slow

I think we got a lot in common

That’s my brand wouldn’t trade it for the World

We’re about the same age on the outside

Inside I’m a thousand years old

Is this your room I can’t do 60 like once I could

Bet you didn’t know I was that hot

You didn’t know I was that good

You got nothing to fear can I smoke in here

Steel player friend of mine lived right down the half

These walls are thin nobody heard him fall

Last of the best without a shadow a doubt

Hi-Lo shag’s the last thing he saw before it all faded out

What’s that you say 'life is like a low budget movie'

Slow down there honey' you lost me that time

'We all took less then it closed'

Truest thing you said all night that’s a laugh

You can write it on my epitaph

See you in Heaven or next time which ever’s first

I ain’t USDA prime God knows you seen worse

Just tell Saint Peter at the Golden Gate

I won’t be late but let me get it straight

Can I get a beer can I smoke in here